Search for dissertations about: "topicality"

Found 4 swedish dissertations containing the word topicality.

2. 1. The Autonomous and the Passive Progressive in 20th-Century Irish

   Author : Karin Hansson; Ailbhe Ó Corráin; Seosamh Watson; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Celtic languages; autonomous; agent; corpus linguistics; impersonal; discourse function; Irish; passive; passive progressive; patient; topicality; Keltiska språk; Celtic languages; Keltiska språk; Celtic Languages; keltiska språk;

   Abstract : The present study deals with the use of two Irish verb constructions, the autonomous (e.g. cuireadh litreacha chun bealaigh, ‘letters were dispatched’) and the passive progressive (e.g. READ MORE

4. 2. Rape and Religion in English Renaissance Literature : A Topical Study of Four Texts by Shakespeare, Drayton, and Middleton

   Author : Anna Swärdh; Monica Fryckstedt; Michael Srigley; Marcus Nordlund; John Roe; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; English language; William Shakespeare; Michael Drayton; Thomas Middleton; Robert Southwell; Titus Andronicus; The Rape of Lucrece; Matilda; The Ghost of Lucrece; complaint poetry; Reformation; Counter-Reformation; idolatry; iconoclasm; baroque; poery of tears; rape; rape legislation; Anne Bellamy; Richard Topcliffe; Engelska; English language; Engelska språket; English; Engelska;

   Abstract : This study argues that Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus (1594) and The Rape of Lucrece (1594), Michael Drayton’s Matilda (1594) and Thomas Middleton’s The Ghost of Lucrece (1600) are, in ways hitherto not realised, topically concerned with the religious controversies in the wake of the English Reformation. This concern is discussed on a general level of interest related to religious attitudes and practices significant at the time of writing, and on a specific level pertaining to events surrounding the capture of the Jesuit poet Robert Southwell in 1592, which included the rape or seduction of a Catholic woman. READ MORE

5. 3. Punctuality and railway maintenance

   Author : Birre Nyström; []
   Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Maskinelement; Machine Elements;

   Abstract : Long and frequent train delays, striking many periodically make headlines. The question is raised: what might be done about it? The on-going deregulation of the Swedish railway, with more actors entering the market, contributes to the question's topicality. In this thesis, problems and symptoms concerning punctuality are described and analysed. READ MORE

6. 4. The Petersburg Text of Russian Cinema in Perestroika and Post-Perestroika Eras

   Author : Natalia Bratova; Ryska; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; The myth of the city; Petersburg myth; Petersburg text; carnivalisation; Russian cinema; perestroika cinema; city in cinema; Bakhtin; Toporov;

   Abstract : In order to examine contemporary Russian cinema, this thesis has two points of departure: firstly the Petersburg myth, which is here defined as reversible or ambiguous since it includes both an eschatological and a cosmogonic aspect; and secondly, the Petersburg literary text as defined in works by Vladimir Toporov. During the twentieth century, the vitality and actuality of the Petersburg myth was questioned both in literature and in theoretical works. READ MORE